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How do I do that? I know how to open things as Administrator, but I have not found out how to remove the status of Administrator already granted! I am now going to try shutting the PC and restating, hoping that will clear Administrator status / remove administrator privileges. If it does it will of course only be a temporary stop-gap until I have learned how to do it properly. If it does not then I am somewhat stuck!

Now Windows Explorer normally runs in medium integrity mode, and explorer.exe is the parent process from which all other user-initiated processes inherit their access token. If Explorer is running with admin privileges i.e. at high integrity level, then any Metro apps it launches will inherit that administrative access token, which is obviously a strict no-no as it will violate the sandboxed environment provided by the AppContainer integrity level. Hence the error message thrown.

Windows Explorer isn't launched with Admin Rights as far as I know too. It could have something to do with the "Priority" in the Task Manager, but this doesn't affect the access level.